Have you ever wondered how your favorite FAI event comes together and who exactly makes it all happen? This series aims to answer that and more, 10 questions at a time. We sat down with Caitlin Matanle, one of the Directors of FLAME, and asked her our burning questions. 1 - What brought you into [...]

February 13 2018

Have you ever wondered how your favorite FAI event comes together and who exactly makes it all happen? This series aims to answer that and more, 10 questions at a time. This time around, we talk with Nick Garcia, General Manager for FLAME Festival. 1 - What brought you into the flow arts? When I first [...]

March 13 2016

Co-Authored by Kassandra Morrison & Jason Fields The festival season is approaching quickly! FLAME starting off the FAI circuit this April, there’s nothing better to ease the excitement, then throwing you back to the energy and tunes from last year. Here’s a playlist of artists who created that impenetrable atmosphere: SoundCloud Playlist for FLAME Festival [...]

Congratulations to Gail O'Brien, from Ireland! With almost 700 votes, she claimed 1st place in our contest. She receives a ticket to all 6 FAI festivals! All the nominees deserve a congratulations. Each one is a pillar of excellence in the community. Final Tally: Gail O'Brien 688 Lux Luminous 617 Kassandra Morrison 567 Ken Hill 333 Krisstina [...]

This page is built for quick access to voting. To view the profiles on the original page (long load time) Click here. Here at the Flow Arts Institute, we value quality instruction. Each FAI festival nominated up to 5 Instructors that taught in 2015 and were regional or specific to their fest. All previous Instructors [...]

We, at the Flow Arts Institute (FAI), nominated instructors via committee from all of our festivals for Instructors of the Month for 2015. They received default nominations to participate in the instructor of the year contest. Many instructors who were nominated by the festivals had been Instructor's of the Month. [...]

Camp Fire is an annual retreat located in Minnesota. It serves as a focal point for the performing arts community to gather and transmit the experience of collective and individual transformation through active participation in expressive forms of communication with the ultimate goal of promoting conscious living and a [...]

FireDrums is the longest running flow arts and fire festival in the world. This historic event taking place in California brings together flow artists from around the world with the mission of uniting the cultures of fire dancing, fire performance arts, and flow arts. It strives to achieve [...]

Kinetic Fire is a 4 day fire performer’s paradise, held May 19th - 22nd in College Corner, Ohio. The event is designed to provide a fun and open-share communal environment in which object manipulators and fire artists from all over the Midwest and the world can learn, teach, and advance [...]